The Iranian Features
May 15-19, 2000 / Ordibehesht 26-30, 1379
Today
* Poetry:
Never liked Persian men
* Poetry:
Memory strands
* Poetry:
Breadwinner
Recent
* Film:
Action!
* Academic:
Oaying our dues
* Art:
Only trees
* Terhan
Times: The red ribbon
* Opinion:
Active peace
* Emails:
Cool & kooky
* Cover
story: The up-start woman
* Terhan
Times: Wishing upon a star
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Friday
May 19, 2000
Poetry
Never liked Persian men
Two poems
By Leyla Momeny
May 19, 2000
The Iranian
Sunday
I recall the feeling of grass
scratching my belly
while watching you kick a ball
with a dozen other beautiful men
one blissful green day
below los angeles smog >>>
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Poetry
Memory strands
Poem
By Siamak Kiarostami
May 19, 2000
The Iranian
... The Revolution was the
Adolescence of a great nation
Interrupted.
He has the memories of his uncles--
He imagines
Half-full bottles of Shams beer left
Still cold on beaches of shomal-e Iran
And an unfinished joint
Hastily stubbed out on
The Paradise that was taking shape
along the shores of the Caspian >>>
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Poetry
Breadwinner
Poem
By Ali Mohajer
May 19, 2000
The Iranian
One summer day, back in 1982 or so
I remember sitting in the backseat of the family car
Watching traffic shimmer in the heat...
So tell me father,
Now that we've grown up,
When you saw the beggar
Gimping through the haze of engine fumes,
Faking palsy (so you told us),
Did you feel betrayed? >>>
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Thursday
May 18, 2000
Film
Action!
Behind the camera with Samira Makhmalbaf
Photographs by Maysam Makhmalbaf
May 18, 2000
The Iranian
Samira Makhmalbaf, 20, became the youngest director to have a film in
the Cannes Film Festival's competition category with her latest, "Blackboard".
The film has received glowing reviews and she's been the talk of the town.
Here are some photos taken by her brother, Maysam, during the shooting
of "Blackboard", in Iran's Kurdistan. The film tells the story
of a group of teachers trekking up stony mountain paths in search of illiterates
to educate
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Academic
Paying our dues
Academics need to do more to respond to Iran's democratic
movement
By Mehrdad Valibeigi
April 27, 2000
The Iranian
From a presentation at the 18th annual conference of the Center for
Iranian Research and Analysys (CIRA) in Washington, DC (April 28-29). Mehrdad
Valibeigi is a professor of economics at the American University.
The dawn of the new period of democratic movement in Iran has expanded
the scope and the burden of responsibility by the expatriate Iranian scientific
community. To meet this new challenge, we social scientists have to be
critically examining our past performance, and sincerely increase our efforts
towards genuine and relevant research on all aspect of the Iranian society
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Wednesday
May 17, 2000
Art
Only trees
Paintings by Farhad Ostovani
May 17, 2000
The Iranian
Sometimes it seems that the motto of The Iranian should be: All
unusual things fit to print. This latest unusual feature is on the works
of Farhad Ostovani. They're not just unusual, they're bold, they're original.
They're only trees >>>
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Tehran Times
The red ribbon
Hatamikia's new film goes right to the heart
By Najmeh Fakhraie
May 17, 2000
The Iranian
Once in a while you leave the movie theater not only laughing about
the weird hairdo of the person who sat in front of you, but actually "thinking"
about the film. How these moments occur and what causes them I am not sure,
but one thing I do know is that it takes courage and much brilliance to
make people think.
I had such a moment a week ago when I went to see Ebrahim Hatamikia's
wonderful film "The Red Ribbon" >>>
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Tuesday
May 16, 2000
Opinion
Active peace
Instead of an interlude between wars
By Majid tehranian
May 16, 2000
The Iranian
The peace of a cemetery is passive peace. Active peace is when the human
community is engaged in constructing those delicate social and affective
ties of love and meaning that turn life into a wondrous and creative journey.
As the Japanese Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda puts it eloquently, "peace
cannot be a mere stillness, a great interlude between wars. It must be
a vital and energetic arena of life-activity, won through our own volitional,
proactive efforts. Peace must be a living drama."
To achieve active peace in the long run, the United Nations has rightly
put its emphasis this year on the development of a culture of peace. But
before we can develop a culture of peace, we must understand what is a
culture of violence >>>
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Emails
Cool & kooky
Unusual emails addresses
May 16, 2000
The Iranian
Some interesting emails registered at The Iranian. Got any
suggestions?
a_Fakhabikasezadehalnajafishafapay@
Allahakbar13@
amirunited@
Atishpareh@
behesht@
b_ghanoni@
ChosMister@ >>>
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Monday
May 15, 2000
Cover story
The up-start woman
Short story
By Reza Ordoubadian
May 15, 2000
The Iranian
Aunt Gammar could barely contain herself as she sat on her hands in
the corner to keep from shouting, but she had heard all she could take,
and when the aging Mullah tried again to explain a simple passage from
the Koran -- and failed -- a voice was heard from the very back of the
mosque, where the women sat, "No...! No... ! No... ! That can't be!"
The Mullah stopped cold in mid sentence, and all the heads turned in
unison to see who had dared to interrupt the preacher. It was not that
someone had objected to what was said, but the voice that had said it:
a woman's voice, resonant and loud, repeated again, "You're wrong,
Agha!" >>>
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Tehran Times
Wishing upon a star
What about the children of unemployed journalists?
By Najmeh Fakhraie
May 15, 2000
The Iranian
Tehran Times is a new column which will appear periodically. Najmeh
Fakhraie is a 16-year-old student in Tehran.
As you know a while back, a bunch of newspapers were closed down. Coincidentally
they all belonged to the reformers, as they're called. I really don't care
who the people who lost their jobs were, what they believed in, what "evil"
acts they commited to deserve treatment like this but I feel so sorry for
them and their children. Is there a birthday party they were looking forward
to but now can't go because they can't afford a present? Are they sad?
Are they scared? I bet anything that they are. And all because of what?
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